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Poems
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"Dorothea
Tanning, who has had a long and marvelous life as a visual artist, is our most
surprising new poet.”
—Edward Hirsch, The
Washington Post Book World |
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In this second daring collection, Coming to That, the centenarian painter and poet Dorothea Tanning
illuminates our understanding of creativity, the impulse to make, and the
longevity of art. Her unique wit and candor radiate through every poem, every
line, and her inquisitive mind is everywhere alive and restless. As she writes
in one poem, “If Art would only talk it would, at last, reveal / itself for
what it is, what we all burn to know.”
“As with everything else she has turned her hand to, she’s
made poetry her own . . . I’ve never met her, but simply knowing of her
existence expands my sense of the possible in art and life.”
—Barry Schwabsky, The Nation
“Dorothea Tanning primes the page like canvas, outfoxing
the tricks of time and memory in these playful and intoxicating poems. . . .
Reading these poems, you get the sense Tanning could pilot her way from here to
infinity and not miss a single turn.”
—John Freeman, Star tribune (Minneapolis)
“Dorothea Tanning’s verbal wizardry is a constant
surprise, an abiding delight. . . . She wears her soul on her sleeve, and it
shines, it shines!”
“[Tanning] prefers ‘emerging poet.’ ‘Oldest living
emerging poet,’ she will say when she’s among friends, lifting a
glass—champagne is served at Tanning’s from five to seven…”
—from a
profile in The New Yorker
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